... the ideal of contamination has no more eloquent exponent than Salman Rushdie, who has insisted that the novel that occasioned his fatwa "celebrates hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, cultures, ideas politics, movies, songs. It rejoices in mongrelisation and fears the absolutism of the Pure. Melange, hotchpotch, a bit of this and a bit of that is how newness enters the world. It is the great possibility that mass migration gives the world, an I have tried to embrace it"This is where the idea of including mongrel in "Digital Immersion Mongrel Vygotsky" originated
-Kwame Anthony Appiah. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006)
Masih Alinejad’s speech to the UN Security Council
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“When a regime turns off the Internet during mass killings, and at the same
time the leaders of the same regime [use] the privilege of freedom of
speech on...
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